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Re: SCCS strings embedded in code with -Wall

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From: Joe Buck
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 19:55
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In article <HF.93Jan19152555@whyaduck.tk.telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de> hf@tk.telematik.informatik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Harald Fuchs) writes:
>Since gcc -Wall makes most of lint obsolete, it might even be a
>reasonable idea to let gcc define lint when called with -Wall.

This would be a bad idea; I've seen many programs (including some very
widely used ones) that substitute dummy, nonfunctional, but type-correct
code when lint is defined.  This means that a hidded -Dlint would break
the program.



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